Kindergarten Word Lists
These terms are words included in the state frameworks that have been deemed essential knowledge for end of course tests.

Important Note to Parents 
Please be aware that these are not words that K students have to be able to recognize like a sight word nor do they have to be able to spell them.

Language Arts
alphabet
back cover/front cover
date
drawing
fairy tale
first name/last name
follow/give directions
letter
letter-sound relationship
listening skill
number word
picture book
picture dictionary
poem
print
retell
rhyme
sight word
sign
speech
title/title page (introduction)
word
word families

Math
above
behind
below
calendar
circle
clock
day
graph (introduction)
hour
in front
inside
left
money
months
number
number line
outside
pattern
rectangle
right
shape
size
sorting
square
triangle
under
week
year
zero

Science
air
animal features
cloud
color
day
egg
food
growth
insect
month
night
parent
plant
ruler
seasonal change
senses
shape
size
soil
water
weather
week
year

Social Studies
automobile
celebration
family
holiday
honesty
human
job
leaders (i.e., Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr.)
month
neighborhood
privacy
rules
seasons
today
tomorrow
transportation
United States
vote
week
year
yesterday